Event

Pete Seeger Festival

Tompkins Corners Cultural Center presents a Pete Seeger Festival to celebrate the musical and humanitarian legacy of our neighbor, mentor and friend - and his birthday, which is on May 3rd. Performers will include David and Jacob Bernz, Dan Einbender and Roy Diggit, Pat Lamanna, Mel and Vinnie, Melissa Ortquist and Karen Brooks, Andy Revkin, RJ Storm and Old School Bluegrass Band, Sarah Underhill, and Susan Wright with Steve Kirkman. The musicians performed with Pete and sailed with him on the sloops Clearwater and Woody Guthrie and worked with him at the Beacon Sloop Club. In addition to singing Petes songs and their own, they will have stories to tell about the man who inspired so many people in the course of his 94 years. The Festival is free and family-friendly. Because the Great Hudson River Revival is not being held this year, and because Clearwater still needs to raise funds to complete the restoration of its hallmark sloop, donations will be requested throughout the festival that will be given to the Clearwater organization to float the boat.